All Members present are
required to declare, at this point in the meeting or as soon as
possible thereafter

(i)Any disclosable pecuniary interests and /
or

(ii)Other interests arising under the Code of Conduct in
respect of any item(s) of business being considered at this
meeting

NOTES:

·Members are reminded that they must not participate
in any item where they have a disclosable pecuniary
interest

·As well as an interest of the Member, this includes
any interest, of which the Member is aware, that relates to the
Member’s spouse or civil partner (or any person with whom the
Member is living as a spouse or civil partner)

·Members with a significant personal interest may
participate in the discussion and vote on that matter unless that
interest could be reasonably regarded as prejudicial.

GASP
AWARDS:Held at the incredible McLaren
Technology Centre in Woking. GASP Chair, Sally Varah and Chief Executive Officer, Henry Curwen,
welcomed supporters, friends, family members and most importantly
the 18 inspirational young award winners. I presented the
GASP Group Achievement
Award to 5 young girls from Woking High School who took partin the Industry Linked
programmes, which deliver collaboratively with Stanhope-Seta. Other
awards included ‘Total Engagement’, ‘Personal
Development’, ‘Perseverance’, ‘Commitment
and Resilience’, ‘Enthusiasm to Learn’ and
‘Peer Mentoring’.

ROYAL
VISIT:Held at The Royal Alexandra and
Albert School in Reigate with Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester to celebrate 260 years since the school’s founding
- a very special occasion.

LONG
SERVICE AWARDS:This took place in the
Grand Hall celebrating the dedication and hard work of many
colleagues with 25 years of service to Surrey County Council and
one person with 40 years of service. It was a wonderful afternoon
full of celebration.

Mr O’Reilly, as proposer
of the motion for the election of the Leader of the Council, spoke
in support of the nomination of Mr Oliver. This nomination was
seconded by Mrs Lewis, who also said a few words.

RESOLVED:

That Mr Oliver be elected
Leader of the Council for a four year term, expiring on the day of
the post-election annual meeting in 2021.

1.
The Leader of the Council or the appropriate Member of the Cabinet
or the Chairman of a Committee to answer any questions on any
matter relating to the powers and duties of the County Council, or
which affects the county.

(Note: Notice of questions in respect of the above item
on the agenda must be given in writing, preferably by e-mail, to
Democratic Services by 12 noon on 5 December 2018).

2.
Cabinet Member Briefings on their portfolios

These will be
circulated by email to all Members prior to the County Council
meeting, together with the Members’ questions and
responses.

Notice of 14 questions had been
received. The questions and replies are attached as Appendix
B.

A number of supplementary
questions were asked and a summary of the main points is set out
below:

(Q2) Mr Robert
Evansasked the Cabinet Member for
Community Safety,

Fire & Resilience if she
felt it would be positive for members of the Surrey Police and
Crime Panel to attend thePolice and Crime
Panel national conference. The Cabinet Member stated that the
matter should be directed at the Police and Crime Panel for
response.

(Q3) Graham
Ellwoodasked the Cabinet
Member for Children, Young People & Families to confirm what
arrangements would to be made to allow residents transport to the
remaining children’s centre sites. The Cabinet Member showed
support for the family resilience model within Children’s
Services and explained that details would be provided following the
review of the responses to the consultation.

(Q7) Stephen
Cookseyfelt that his question had not
been responded to and askedthe Cabinet Member
to confirm who was responsible for the final decision to close the
canteens, what consultations had taken place with staff, and why
Member consultation was not taken into account. The Cabinet Member
stated that the decision was taken by the Cabinet and had been
included in the Cabinet papers for the meeting on 25 September
2018. She further stressed that the decision showed the seriousness
of the council’s financial situation. It was noted that
alternative catering arrangements had been made and would be
reviewed following implementation.

Cabinet Member
Briefings:these were also published with
the supplementary agenda on 10 December 2018.

Members made the following
points:

Deputy
Leader:on the need to maintain and clean
highway signs in Surrey. The Cabinet Member confirmed that all
statutory signs were maintained and cleaned for safety reasons. He
further informed Members that some parish councils were beginning
to declutter non-statutory signs in their areasas some felt there
were too many signs on the counties highways.

Members also queried what
powers and responsibilities the county would be seeking for the
‘Transport for the South East’ sub-national transport
body. The former Deputy Leader informed Members that the decision
still needed to be made on this but that the council would be
looking at the legislative body ‘Transport for the North
East’ as a guideline while adding in the context of the south
east.

In his previous capacity as
Cabinet Member for Highways, the Deputy Leader agreed to provide a
response to a Member outside the meeting to explain the reasoning
for road works taking place on a recently re-laid road.

Cabinet Member for
Environment and Waste:on the need for a
better railway service for residents as well as an improved delay
repay scheme. Members also raised concerns with the
Government’s plans to earmark funds from the business rates
retention scheme to fund the extra costs of Crossrail 1, rather
than Crossrail 2. The Cabinet Member agreed that there was a need
for a better rail service in ...
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For Surrey
County Council, in partnership with four other local authorities,
to establish a Joint Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee for a
four year term to scrutinise possible substantial variations
arising from the development of the Sussex and East Surrey
Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP).

That Surrey
County Council provides three Members to serve on the Joint Health
& Overview Committee in accordance with political
proportionality requirements. The report also requests that
responsibility be delegated to the Health Integration and
Commissioning Select Committee to appoint a non-voting co-opted
representative from among its district and borough
Members.

The Leader of the Council
introduced the report and provided Members with a brief summary. It
was highlighted that, as Leader of the Council, he would continue
to chair the Health and Wellbeing Board. It was further highlighted
that Cllr Botten, Cllr Chapman and Cllr Grant-Duff would be
appointed to the Joint Committee.

Members highlighted that the
power to refer onto the Secretary of State would remain with the
Health, Integration and Commissioning Select Committee.

RESOLVED:

That Surrey County Council:

agreed to the establishment of a Joint Health
Overview & Scrutiny Committee with Brighton and Hove City
Council, East Sussex County Council and West Sussex County Council
for the purposes of scrutinising substantial variations in service
delivery arising from the development of Sussex and East Surrey
Sustainability and Transformation Plan;

approved the Terms of Reference for Sussex and East
Surrey STP Joint Health Overview and
Scrutiny Committee attached as Annex A to this report;

agreed to appoint Mr Chris Botten, Dr Bill Chapman
and Dr Zully Grant-Duff as Surrey County Council’s
representative on the Sussex and East Surrey STP Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee;
and

delegated responsibility for appointing a non-voting
co-opted representative to the JHOSC to
the Health Integration and Commissioning Select
Committee.

Mr
David Harmerproposed that the final sentence
of paragraph 9 be amended to read‘Appropriate training will be
provided for all Members of the Audit and Governance Committee and
the Corporate Overview Select Committee’, which was
agreed.

RESOLVED:

That the new Financial Regulations attached in Annex
A of the report be approved.

That the delegation of approval of the annual
Treasury Management Strategy Statement to the Audit and Governance
Committee be approved.

That the necessary amendments to the Council’s
Constitution be approved, to allow the Audit and Governance
Committee to “review and approve” the annual Treasury
Management Strategy Statement.

The Leader of the Council
highlighted that Deputy Cabinet Members now had been allocated to
specific Cabinet portfolios and from now on will be asked to
provide an update to each County Council meeting.

Members made the following
points:

·That Cabinet Members should be able to conduct the
full work within a portfolio, rather than have a deputy.

·That, in theory, there could be up to 10 new Deputy
Cabinet Members.

·That in October 2018, the Independent Remuneration
Panel (IRP) stated that Deputy Cabinet Member roles were not
necessary.

·That 18 of 26 County Councils in the country had
Deputy Cabinet Members.

52
Members voted for, 14 Against and 4 Abstentions

Therefore it was resolved:

That the Special Responsibility
Allowance for Deputy Cabinet Members is set at
£10,000.

The Leader of the Council
introduced the report and stated that the report summarised the
work of select committees in 2017/18 and outlined the key
priorities going forward. It was highlighted that there would be a
review of all select committees.

Members made the following
points:

Highlighted
that two thirds of select committee meetings did not make a
recommendation.

Felt that
select committees should play a more important role in the
governance of the Council.

That
consistency from previous arrangements was needed when reviewing
select committees.

Any matters within the minutes of the Cabinet’s meetings,
and not otherwise brought to the Council’s attention in the
Cabinet’s report, may be the subject of questions and
statements by Members upon notice being given to Democratic
Services by 12 noon on 10 December 2018.